2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The interaction of cognition and bodily movements
| Project/Area Number |
15K17329
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Keio University (2016)
Sapporo Medical University (2015) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
Fukuzawa Kazuyoshi 早稲田大学, 文学部, 教授 (00156762)
Yoshihara Masahiro 早稲田大学, 文学研究科
Yamada Chiharu 早稲田大学, 文学研究科
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 空書 / 運動 / 身体性 / 文字 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study aimed to reveal the underlying mechanism how bodily movements influence cognitive processing of written language by using young and elderly healthy individuals and brain damaged patients. The series of experiments consistently showed that kusho behavior positively affected cognitive task performance (Kanji construction task) only when the visual feedback of the finger movements was available. In addition, we showed a positive correlation between the task performance and vocabulary score only in the condition that target stimuli were presented for 3 seconds. Further, we confirmed that the facilitation effects of kusho behavior for the elderly individuals and a patient with a parietal lobe lesion. These results together supported the hypothesis that the visual aspects of kusho behavior assist cognitive processing regardless of the general cognitive ability.
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| Free Research Field |
認知神経心理学
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